Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Burning heat
Serpents
General references
Bible References
Burnt
Deuteronomy 28:53
You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.'"
Lamentations 4:4
(Dalet) The infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
Burning heat
Psalm 18:12
From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.
Psalm 120:4
Here's how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.
Habakkuk 3:5
Plague goes before him; pestilence marches right behind him.
The teeth
Leviticus 26:22
I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.
Jeremiah 15:3
"I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.
Jeremiah 16:4
They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.
Ezekiel 5:17
I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!"
Ezekiel 14:15
"Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.
Serpents
Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
Genesis 49:15
When he sees a good resting place, and the pleasant land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and become a slave laborer.
Isaiah 65:25
A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake's food will be dirt. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain," says the Lord.
Amos 9:3
Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.
General references
Jeremiah 48:43
Terror, pits, and traps are in store for the people who live in Moab. I, the Lord, affirm it!
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.